Re: bibtex bibliography insertions in lyx 1.62

[Jürgen Spitzmüller]

sensen wrote:
 I used IEEEtran template, if no bibtex bibliography, works well.
 but now i want to insert the reference using bibtex.
 after insert and citation, i checked the dvi, get error like bellow

Please post an example file.

Jürgen

Re: Fwd: Re: subdocuments

[Wolfgang Engelmann]

Am Thursday 30 April 2009 11:03:31 schrieb Guenter Milde:
 On 2009-04-30, Wolfgang Engelmann wrote:
  Am Wednesday 29 April 2009 21:40:41 schrieb Guenter Milde:
  On 2009-04-29, Wolfgang Engelmann wrote:
 
  continuing this I found out that the error was due to a reference. But it
  can't be the reference itself, since the same one is used at another
  place without giving troubles.

 Maybe it is an error that only manifests itself at certain places in the
 document.

  There were two further references in front of it; moving it to the
  begin of the three citations in a row did not help. I put it in a note
  for the time being until I find a solution. I remember that this
  occurs apparently occassionaly in a koma-book-setting with two columns.

 It would be nice if you could construct a minimal example showing the
 problem.

 Günter
I will try, but I am not sure whether I can manage. It occurs apparently in 
cases where several citations follow each other and one of the citations  has 
to have some special feature where breaking in the pdf output is not 
possible. I might send you a longer part privately, if you don't mind

Wolfgang

Re: Beamer Class: allowframebreaks

[Jürgen Spitzmüller]

Rich Shepard wrote:
 Using LyX-1.6.2 and beamer-3.07, how do I now specify the frame option,
 allowframebreaks?

ERT [allowframebreaks] at the very beginning of a frame title.

I see a menu option of AgainFrame but no explanation of what that
 does, where to put the command, or other information in the extended
 features docs For that matter, I saw nothing on the beamer class in the
 extended features doc.

You can use it to repeat a previous frame (or selected slides of it).
The frame to be repeated is labelled with [label=foo], again in ERT at the 
very beginning of the frame title. Then you can insert AgainFrame and just 
write foo after the with Label part. Actually, this is a very useful 
feature of the babel class, IMHO.

Jürgen

Re: Sporatic 1.6.2 Crash

[Jürgen Spitzmüller]

Rich Shepard wrote:
 Running 1.6.2 on Slackware-12.2 here. Most of the time when I press the
 [Home] key, the cursor is moved to the top of the buffer. However, three
 times now (on two different documents), pressing [Home] causes instant
 shutdown of the application without an .emergency save. PITA!

Does this happen if you have an empty paragraph or two subsequent blanks 
before pressing Home?

Jürgen

Re: Sporatic 1.6.2 Crash

[Vincent van Ravesteijn]

Jürgen Spitzmüller schreef:

Rich Shepard wrote:
  

Running 1.6.2 on Slackware-12.2 here. Most of the time when I press the
[Home] key, the cursor is moved to the top of the buffer. However, three
times now (on two different documents), pressing [Home] causes instant
shutdown of the application without an .emergency save. PITA!



Does this happen if you have an empty paragraph or two subsequent blanks 
before pressing Home?


Jürgen
  
I can reproduce this in the User's Guid with the 1.6.2 release. Go to 
the last itemized list in section 3.4.2, put the cursor at the end of an 
item. Scroll down a page or two, press Home.


D:\LyX\lyx-1.6.2\src\support\lassert.cpp(21): ASSERTION !rows().empty() 
VIOLATED IN D:\LyX\lyx-1.6.2\src\ParagraphMetrics.cpp:1602


I can neither reproduce this with trunk/branch or branch at r28772 (i.e. 
1.6.2) ?!?


Vincent

Re: Beamer Class: allowframebreaks

[Rich Shepard]

On Fri, 1 May 2009, J?rgen Spitzm?ller wrote:


ERT [allowframebreaks] at the very beginning of a frame title.


  Thank you, Juergen.


You can use it to repeat a previous frame (or selected slides of it). The
frame to be repeated is labelled with [label=foo], again in ERT at the
very beginning of the frame title. Then you can insert AgainFrame and just
write foo after the with Label part. Actually, this is a very useful
feature of the babel class, IMHO.


  Oh. OK. Makes sense when you explain it, but I cannot think of a use for
it now.

Much appreciated,

Rich

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Re: Sporatic 1.6.2 Crash

[Rich Shepard]

On Fri, 1 May 2009, J?rgen Spitzm?ller wrote:


Does this happen if you have an empty paragraph or two subsequent blanks
before pressing Home?


Juergen,

  No. Usually I'm typing in a paragraph or an item in a beamer slide and
accidently press the [Home] key instead of the backspace key next to it. Or,
I've stopped typing and want to check something at the beginning of the
buffer so I deliberately press the key.

  Most of the time it works as intended. Only a few times have I been
suddenly left looking at the root window because there's no more LyX window
to be seen. And it's not the same as accidently iconifying the LyX window;
when I middle-click on the root window there's no indication of the
application's presence.

Rich

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Re: Table in 2 (odd-even) pages

[Jürgen Spitzmüller]

Piero Faustini wrote:
 How can I have a table span across 2 pages (an odd page and the opposite
 one) just as it was one page?

http://www.tex.ac.uk/cgi-bin/texfaq2html?label=dpfloat

Jürgen

Table in 2 (odd-even) pages

[Piero Faustini]

I couldn't find a discussion on this topic.
How can I have a table span across 2 pages (an odd page and the opposite one) 
just as it was one page?
 (I don't want a Longtable. Just a table which use 2 pages as they were one).
Another similar question on tables which could partially solve question above:
 Is there a way to have a longtable left-right-wise, instead of top-bottom-
wise? I mean longtable which continue its too-wide-right-side on next page(s), 
not its bottom side.
(I know this is much a LaTeX question, but in LyX things with tables could get 
worse so LyX expert can help better)
Thanks!
Piero

Re: How to update to 1.6.2?

[Paul A. Rubin]

Piero Faustini wrote:



You have ti download LyX 1.6.2
I don't know if it will uninstall 1.6.1 automagically
Perhaps you want to uninstall it before. I think it doesn't delete yuour 
settings, but you may want to have a backup of the settings folder.




The uninstaller will ask if you want to delete the settings.  As long as 
you say no, they will carry over to the next version.


/Paul

Re: Automatic upper case for citation? (using BibLaTeX)

[Piero Faustini]

Dominik Waßenhoven domw...@... writes:

 Regarding upper case after dots in strings like 'ibid.' etc.: You have
 to use the optional argument to the cite command for this, e.g.
 \cite[cfr.][]{FaustiniBraga}, then 'ibid.' or 'id.' don't get
 capitalized. You can also achieve this from within LyX. See the
 documents (both .lyx and .bib) below:

Yep, you're right, I feel stupid I didn't think about it...
thanks

Re: Using LyX for writing a very long manual

[Thomas Løcke]

2009/4/29 Steve Litt sl...@troubleshooters.com:
 Hi Thomas,

 In my opinion, LyX is exactly the right tool for what you're doing. With its
 WYSIAWYG (What You See Is Almost What You Get) environment, you can pound out
 content as fast as your fingers can type, and never have to spend time
 remembering codes or have codes get in your way when proofreading. Almost all
 appearance will be done by styles, so during authoring you needn't spend time
 fine tuning the look of the book. And because LyX uses LaTeX under the hood,
 your book comes out typeset very pleasingly.


I'm currently working my way through the tutorial and the user's
guide, and already I'm impressed at how nice output looks. I can't
quite put my finger on what it is, but there's definitely something
slick about it.


 I've used LyX to write a 309 page 8.5x11, a 201 page 8.5x11, a 231 page 8.5x11
 eBook, 2 more eBooks in the 100+ page range, one that was 90 pages, and I'm
 working on one that's probably going to weigh in at about 150.

 You mentioned this is a programming book and you want to avoid getting painted
 into corners. You need to figure out ahead of time what styles you'll need.
 You'll definitely need a paragraph style for code (paragraph styles are
 called environments in LyX). Personally I make my own (mycode), which is
 really just a copystyle of lyx-code. You'll also need a character style for
 code (mycodec).

 Presumably you're going to need styles Tip, Warning, Caution, and Note for
 callouts. You might also need a generic callout, so if you want a box with
 heading DON'T RETURN A LOCAL POINTER FROM A FUNCTION and text explainging why
 the pointer went out of scope, you can do so.

 If necessary I can send you my code for these styles.


I would like that very much! I tend to learn things faster/easier when
I have some actual working code to look at.


 I'd suggest you read all the LyX help files, especially the customization one.
 I'd also suggest you read Litt's LyX Library at
 http://www.troubleshooters.com/linux/lyx/index.htm. Search the Internet for a
 doc called TeX for the Impatient and read it. There's also a Not So Short
 Introduction to LaTeX or something like that, read it. The Memoir document
 class has some must-read documentation -- read it, but I don't recommend you
 actually use the Memoir document class. A guy named Herbert Voss, who used to
 be a mainstay on the LyX list, has a website with all sorts of cool LaTeX
 riffs. Last but not least, there are a few dead-trees books on LaTeX. They're
 expensive, but helpful. By spending the first 3 days of your project reading,
 you'll understand all the corners you can get out of, and you'll probably
 discover any you can't.


All good stuff. Thank you.


 Remember when you're creating your styles that they don't have to be perfect
 the first time around -- you can change them later. Make em quick and dirty
 at first, but just be sure to use them every time. The docs on my website are
 a pretty good reference for how to make your own styles.


It appears to be quite an involved process, but I'm sure I can manage,
and if not, I can always post here and hope for some expert
assistance.  :o)


 Now I'm going to give you some very controversial advice, and many will argue
 with it. DO NOT use the facilities of your document class for your
 frontmatter -- instead use custom styles and ERT (inserted LaTeX code) to
 fine-tune your front matter exactly how you want it. There's nothing sadder
 than the guy who picks a document class to get the frontmatter just right,
 and then has to live with that document class's ideosyncracies throughout the
 book. Personally, I always start with the plain old Book document class, and
 use a layout file to add the features I need.


I'm not quite sure I understand what you mean: If I don't use any of
the styles of a document class, why use the class in the first place?
Or am I missing something?


 You've picked a great tool to write your book.

I'm sure I have. I look forward to learning how to use it.

/Thomas

Re: Using LyX for writing a very long manual

[Rich Shepard]

On Fri, 1 May 2009, Thomas L?cke wrote:


I'm currently working my way through the tutorial and the user's guide,
and already I'm impressed at how nice output looks. I can't quite put my
finger on what it is, but there's definitely something slick about it.


  Word processors work with each line as a formatting unit. TeX uses the
paragraph and the page as units for formatting. We are used to seeing
typeset output in published books and magazines so we unconsiously register
the appearance of the entire page.

  If you want to see the differences very clearly, print one page of text
using your favorite word processor, then the same text using LyX. When seen
side-by-side the differences are immediately obvious.


I'm not quite sure I understand what you mean: If I don't use any of the
styles of a document class, why use the class in the first place? Or am I
missing something?


  When you select a document class it provides all the typographic styles
you need ... unless there's something specific and non-standard. The layout
of an article is different from that of a report, and both are different
from that of a book.

Rich

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Re: Table in 2 (odd-even) pages

[Piero Faustini]

Jürgen Spitzmüller sp...@... writes:

 
 Piero Faustini wrote:
  How can I have a table span across 2 pages (an odd page and the opposite
  one) just as it was one page?
 
 http://www.tex.ac.uk/cgi-bin/texfaq2html?label=dpfloat
 
 Jürgen
 
 
thanks J.
that's useful, but not for my case:
the tables would be left aligned.
BTW, is it possible to have a common table center aligned in a way that if 
larger than text line, would span to the right AND to the left?

Trying to use some Chinese characters in Lyx 1.6.2 for Mac

[Kleanthes Koniaris]

Hello Everybody,

I just installed MacTeX and Lyx 1.6.2 on my Mac, and then I typed in  
some English, along with a few Chinese characters.  Everything  
displays very nicely in LyX.  For each group of Chinese characters I  
used the menu setting Edit/Text Style/Customized.../ and set the  
Language to Chinese.


Finally, I clicked upon the View PDF (pdflatex) icon, which spins  
the Mac's beach ball for a while (many tens of seconds), and then  
the following error message results, apparently once for each Chinese  
character:


Font C10/fs/m/n/10/18=gsfs 1418 at 10.0pt not loadable: Metric (TFM)  
file not
Font \C10 /fs/m/n/10=nullfont not loadable: Metric (TFM) file not  
found.


For each error message it gives a description, something like this

I wasn't able to read the size data for this font, so I will ignore  
the font specification.

[Wizards can fix TFM files using TFtoPL/PLtoTF.]
You might try inserting a different font spec; e.g., type `|/ 
fontsame font id=substitute font name'.


Does this mean that I somehow do not have Chinese fonts in the MacTex  
distribution, and that my issues are not at all related to LyX but  
MacTex?


Any help would be most welcome, as LyX is a great tool, but I really  
need to be able to use Chinese characters


Many thanks,

kgk

Re: Using LyX for writing a very long manual

[Marcelo Acuña]

 Many like to use one file per chapter. Lyx can handle a
 single 150-page document, but you may get tired of scrolling
 around in it.
 

I am not tired with a book of 726 pages. I always have outlook screen open. 
When I need go to any section, go by a click in TOC of outlook.
Regards
Marcelo

 I want to say outline instead outlook.
 Marcelo


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Re: Using LyX for writing a very long manual

[Bruce Pourciau]

On May 1, 2009, at 1:42 PM, Rich Shepard wrote:

I'm not quite sure I understand what you mean: If I don't use any  
of the
styles of a document class, why use the class in the first place?  
Or am I

missing something?


 When you select a document class it provides all the typographic  
styles
you need ... unless there's something specific and non-standard. The  
layout
of an article is different from that of a report, and both are  
different

from that of a book.

Rich


When Rich wrote


DO NOT use the facilities of your document class for your
frontmatter -- instead use custom styles and ERT (inserted LaTeX  
code) to

fine-tune your front matter exactly how you want it.


he was speaking of the front matter only -- the title page and so on.  
The main body of the work uses the standard features and styles of the  
given document class.


Bruce

Re: Using LyX for writing a very long manual

[Rich Shepard]

On Fri, 1 May 2009, Bruce Pourciau wrote:


When you select a document class it provides all the typographic styles
you need ... unless there's something specific and non-standard. The layout
of an article is different from that of a report, and both are different
from that of a book.

Rich


When Rich wrote


DO NOT use the facilities of your document class for your
frontmatter -- instead use custom styles and ERT (inserted LaTeX code) to
fine-tune your front matter exactly how you want it.


he was speaking of the front matter only -- the title page and so on. The 
main body of the work uses the standard features and styles of the given 
document class.


Bruce,

  I will accept authorship of the first quote because I wrote it. However, I
did not write the second quote. Don't know who did. When I wrote my book for
Springer-Verlag I used their svmono class for the whole thing. I did need to
start the frontmatter at page 4 so they could insert the usual short title
and other publishing stuff.

Rich

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Re: Using LyX for writing a very long manual

[Typhoon]

On Fri, 1 May 2009 16:33:37 -0700 (PDT)
Rich Shepard rshep...@appl-ecosys.com wrote:

 On Fri, 1 May 2009, Bruce Pourciau wrote:
 
  When you select a document class it provides all the typographic
  styles you need ... unless there's something specific and
  non-standard. The layout of an article is different from that of a
  report, and both are different from that of a book.
  
  Rich
 
  When Rich wrote
 
  DO NOT use the facilities of your document class for your
  frontmatter -- instead use custom styles and ERT (inserted LaTeX
  code) to fine-tune your front matter exactly how you want it.
 
  he was speaking of the front matter only -- the title page and so
  on. The main body of the work uses the standard features and styles
  of the given document class.
 
 Bruce,
 
I will accept authorship of the first quote because I wrote it.
 However, I did not write the second quote. Don't know who did. When I
 wrote my book for Springer-Verlag I used their svmono class for the
 whole thing. I did need to start the frontmatter at page 4 so they
 could insert the usual short title and other publishing stuff.

Steve Litt wrote it, but I agree with him on frontmatter, at least the
first four pages: Half title page (recto),  second page (verso, blank
or containing printing history), full title page (recto), and copyright
page (verso - containing copyright stuff, ISBN/CIP information and
usually printed in a smaller type).

Alan

 
 Rich
 
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 Credibility Applied Ecosystem Services, Inc.|
 Innovation http://www.appl-ecosys.com Voice: 503-667-4517
 Fax: 503-667-8863
 

Typewriter, Bold is indistinguishable from plain Typewriter

[tedc]

I'm writing an instruction document and want to use Typewriter family for
stuff that appears in an xterm--bold to indicate what the user should enter
via the keyboard, and plain (medium) Typewriter for stuff printed by the
computer. These look different on screen in LyX, but the dvi previewer shows
that the bold text is being rendered as plain; pdf output confirms
this--the text marked as plain Typewriter looks identical to text marked as
Typewriter, Bold. This is on a Linux box (Centos 5.3). What can I do about
this?
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Re: bibtex bibliography insertions in lyx 1.62

[Jürgen Spitzmüller]

sensen wrote:
 I used IEEEtran template, if no bibtex bibliography, works well.
 but now i want to insert the reference using bibtex.
 after insert and citation, i checked the dvi, get error like bellow

Please post an example file.

Jürgen

Re: Fwd: Re: subdocuments

[Wolfgang Engelmann]

Am Thursday 30 April 2009 11:03:31 schrieb Guenter Milde:
 On 2009-04-30, Wolfgang Engelmann wrote:
  Am Wednesday 29 April 2009 21:40:41 schrieb Guenter Milde:
  On 2009-04-29, Wolfgang Engelmann wrote:
 
  continuing this I found out that the error was due to a reference. But it
  can't be the reference itself, since the same one is used at another
  place without giving troubles.

 Maybe it is an error that only manifests itself at certain places in the
 document.

  There were two further references in front of it; moving it to the
  begin of the three citations in a row did not help. I put it in a note
  for the time being until I find a solution. I remember that this
  occurs apparently occassionaly in a koma-book-setting with two columns.

 It would be nice if you could construct a minimal example showing the
 problem.

 Günter
I will try, but I am not sure whether I can manage. It occurs apparently in 
cases where several citations follow each other and one of the citations  has 
to have some special feature where breaking in the pdf output is not 
possible. I might send you a longer part privately, if you don't mind

Wolfgang

Re: Beamer Class: allowframebreaks

[Jürgen Spitzmüller]

Rich Shepard wrote:
 Using LyX-1.6.2 and beamer-3.07, how do I now specify the frame option,
 allowframebreaks?

ERT [allowframebreaks] at the very beginning of a frame title.

I see a menu option of AgainFrame but no explanation of what that
 does, where to put the command, or other information in the extended
 features docs For that matter, I saw nothing on the beamer class in the
 extended features doc.

You can use it to repeat a previous frame (or selected slides of it).
The frame to be repeated is labelled with [label=foo], again in ERT at the 
very beginning of the frame title. Then you can insert AgainFrame and just 
write foo after the with Label part. Actually, this is a very useful 
feature of the babel class, IMHO.

Jürgen

Re: Sporatic 1.6.2 Crash

[Jürgen Spitzmüller]

Rich Shepard wrote:
 Running 1.6.2 on Slackware-12.2 here. Most of the time when I press the
 [Home] key, the cursor is moved to the top of the buffer. However, three
 times now (on two different documents), pressing [Home] causes instant
 shutdown of the application without an .emergency save. PITA!

Does this happen if you have an empty paragraph or two subsequent blanks 
before pressing Home?

Jürgen

Re: Sporatic 1.6.2 Crash

[Vincent van Ravesteijn]

Jürgen Spitzmüller schreef:

Rich Shepard wrote:
  

Running 1.6.2 on Slackware-12.2 here. Most of the time when I press the
[Home] key, the cursor is moved to the top of the buffer. However, three
times now (on two different documents), pressing [Home] causes instant
shutdown of the application without an .emergency save. PITA!



Does this happen if you have an empty paragraph or two subsequent blanks 
before pressing Home?


Jürgen
  
I can reproduce this in the User's Guid with the 1.6.2 release. Go to 
the last itemized list in section 3.4.2, put the cursor at the end of an 
item. Scroll down a page or two, press Home.


D:\LyX\lyx-1.6.2\src\support\lassert.cpp(21): ASSERTION !rows().empty() 
VIOLATED IN D:\LyX\lyx-1.6.2\src\ParagraphMetrics.cpp:1602


I can neither reproduce this with trunk/branch or branch at r28772 (i.e. 
1.6.2) ?!?


Vincent

Re: Beamer Class: allowframebreaks

[Rich Shepard]

On Fri, 1 May 2009, J?rgen Spitzm?ller wrote:


ERT [allowframebreaks] at the very beginning of a frame title.


  Thank you, Juergen.


You can use it to repeat a previous frame (or selected slides of it). The
frame to be repeated is labelled with [label=foo], again in ERT at the
very beginning of the frame title. Then you can insert AgainFrame and just
write foo after the with Label part. Actually, this is a very useful
feature of the babel class, IMHO.


  Oh. OK. Makes sense when you explain it, but I cannot think of a use for
it now.

Much appreciated,

Rich

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Re: Sporatic 1.6.2 Crash

[Rich Shepard]

On Fri, 1 May 2009, J?rgen Spitzm?ller wrote:


Does this happen if you have an empty paragraph or two subsequent blanks
before pressing Home?


Juergen,

  No. Usually I'm typing in a paragraph or an item in a beamer slide and
accidently press the [Home] key instead of the backspace key next to it. Or,
I've stopped typing and want to check something at the beginning of the
buffer so I deliberately press the key.

  Most of the time it works as intended. Only a few times have I been
suddenly left looking at the root window because there's no more LyX window
to be seen. And it's not the same as accidently iconifying the LyX window;
when I middle-click on the root window there's no indication of the
application's presence.

Rich

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Re: Table in 2 (odd-even) pages

[Jürgen Spitzmüller]

Piero Faustini wrote:
 How can I have a table span across 2 pages (an odd page and the opposite
 one) just as it was one page?

http://www.tex.ac.uk/cgi-bin/texfaq2html?label=dpfloat

Jürgen

Table in 2 (odd-even) pages

[Piero Faustini]

I couldn't find a discussion on this topic.
How can I have a table span across 2 pages (an odd page and the opposite one) 
just as it was one page?
 (I don't want a Longtable. Just a table which use 2 pages as they were one).
Another similar question on tables which could partially solve question above:
 Is there a way to have a longtable left-right-wise, instead of top-bottom-
wise? I mean longtable which continue its too-wide-right-side on next page(s), 
not its bottom side.
(I know this is much a LaTeX question, but in LyX things with tables could get 
worse so LyX expert can help better)
Thanks!
Piero

Re: How to update to 1.6.2?

[Paul A. Rubin]

Piero Faustini wrote:



You have ti download LyX 1.6.2
I don't know if it will uninstall 1.6.1 automagically
Perhaps you want to uninstall it before. I think it doesn't delete yuour 
settings, but you may want to have a backup of the settings folder.




The uninstaller will ask if you want to delete the settings.  As long as 
you say no, they will carry over to the next version.


/Paul

Re: Automatic upper case for citation? (using BibLaTeX)

[Piero Faustini]

Dominik Waßenhoven domw...@... writes:

 Regarding upper case after dots in strings like 'ibid.' etc.: You have
 to use the optional argument to the cite command for this, e.g.
 \cite[cfr.][]{FaustiniBraga}, then 'ibid.' or 'id.' don't get
 capitalized. You can also achieve this from within LyX. See the
 documents (both .lyx and .bib) below:

Yep, you're right, I feel stupid I didn't think about it...
thanks

Re: Using LyX for writing a very long manual

[Thomas Løcke]

2009/4/29 Steve Litt sl...@troubleshooters.com:
 Hi Thomas,

 In my opinion, LyX is exactly the right tool for what you're doing. With its
 WYSIAWYG (What You See Is Almost What You Get) environment, you can pound out
 content as fast as your fingers can type, and never have to spend time
 remembering codes or have codes get in your way when proofreading. Almost all
 appearance will be done by styles, so during authoring you needn't spend time
 fine tuning the look of the book. And because LyX uses LaTeX under the hood,
 your book comes out typeset very pleasingly.


I'm currently working my way through the tutorial and the user's
guide, and already I'm impressed at how nice output looks. I can't
quite put my finger on what it is, but there's definitely something
slick about it.


 I've used LyX to write a 309 page 8.5x11, a 201 page 8.5x11, a 231 page 8.5x11
 eBook, 2 more eBooks in the 100+ page range, one that was 90 pages, and I'm
 working on one that's probably going to weigh in at about 150.

 You mentioned this is a programming book and you want to avoid getting painted
 into corners. You need to figure out ahead of time what styles you'll need.
 You'll definitely need a paragraph style for code (paragraph styles are
 called environments in LyX). Personally I make my own (mycode), which is
 really just a copystyle of lyx-code. You'll also need a character style for
 code (mycodec).

 Presumably you're going to need styles Tip, Warning, Caution, and Note for
 callouts. You might also need a generic callout, so if you want a box with
 heading DON'T RETURN A LOCAL POINTER FROM A FUNCTION and text explainging why
 the pointer went out of scope, you can do so.

 If necessary I can send you my code for these styles.


I would like that very much! I tend to learn things faster/easier when
I have some actual working code to look at.


 I'd suggest you read all the LyX help files, especially the customization one.
 I'd also suggest you read Litt's LyX Library at
 http://www.troubleshooters.com/linux/lyx/index.htm. Search the Internet for a
 doc called TeX for the Impatient and read it. There's also a Not So Short
 Introduction to LaTeX or something like that, read it. The Memoir document
 class has some must-read documentation -- read it, but I don't recommend you
 actually use the Memoir document class. A guy named Herbert Voss, who used to
 be a mainstay on the LyX list, has a website with all sorts of cool LaTeX
 riffs. Last but not least, there are a few dead-trees books on LaTeX. They're
 expensive, but helpful. By spending the first 3 days of your project reading,
 you'll understand all the corners you can get out of, and you'll probably
 discover any you can't.


All good stuff. Thank you.


 Remember when you're creating your styles that they don't have to be perfect
 the first time around -- you can change them later. Make em quick and dirty
 at first, but just be sure to use them every time. The docs on my website are
 a pretty good reference for how to make your own styles.


It appears to be quite an involved process, but I'm sure I can manage,
and if not, I can always post here and hope for some expert
assistance.  :o)


 Now I'm going to give you some very controversial advice, and many will argue
 with it. DO NOT use the facilities of your document class for your
 frontmatter -- instead use custom styles and ERT (inserted LaTeX code) to
 fine-tune your front matter exactly how you want it. There's nothing sadder
 than the guy who picks a document class to get the frontmatter just right,
 and then has to live with that document class's ideosyncracies throughout the
 book. Personally, I always start with the plain old Book document class, and
 use a layout file to add the features I need.


I'm not quite sure I understand what you mean: If I don't use any of
the styles of a document class, why use the class in the first place?
Or am I missing something?


 You've picked a great tool to write your book.

I'm sure I have. I look forward to learning how to use it.

/Thomas

Re: Using LyX for writing a very long manual

[Rich Shepard]

On Fri, 1 May 2009, Thomas L?cke wrote:


I'm currently working my way through the tutorial and the user's guide,
and already I'm impressed at how nice output looks. I can't quite put my
finger on what it is, but there's definitely something slick about it.


  Word processors work with each line as a formatting unit. TeX uses the
paragraph and the page as units for formatting. We are used to seeing
typeset output in published books and magazines so we unconsiously register
the appearance of the entire page.

  If you want to see the differences very clearly, print one page of text
using your favorite word processor, then the same text using LyX. When seen
side-by-side the differences are immediately obvious.


I'm not quite sure I understand what you mean: If I don't use any of the
styles of a document class, why use the class in the first place? Or am I
missing something?


  When you select a document class it provides all the typographic styles
you need ... unless there's something specific and non-standard. The layout
of an article is different from that of a report, and both are different
from that of a book.

Rich

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Re: Table in 2 (odd-even) pages

[Piero Faustini]

Jürgen Spitzmüller sp...@... writes:

 
 Piero Faustini wrote:
  How can I have a table span across 2 pages (an odd page and the opposite
  one) just as it was one page?
 
 http://www.tex.ac.uk/cgi-bin/texfaq2html?label=dpfloat
 
 Jürgen
 
 
thanks J.
that's useful, but not for my case:
the tables would be left aligned.
BTW, is it possible to have a common table center aligned in a way that if 
larger than text line, would span to the right AND to the left?

Trying to use some Chinese characters in Lyx 1.6.2 for Mac

[Kleanthes Koniaris]

Hello Everybody,

I just installed MacTeX and Lyx 1.6.2 on my Mac, and then I typed in  
some English, along with a few Chinese characters.  Everything  
displays very nicely in LyX.  For each group of Chinese characters I  
used the menu setting Edit/Text Style/Customized.../ and set the  
Language to Chinese.


Finally, I clicked upon the View PDF (pdflatex) icon, which spins  
the Mac's beach ball for a while (many tens of seconds), and then  
the following error message results, apparently once for each Chinese  
character:


Font C10/fs/m/n/10/18=gsfs 1418 at 10.0pt not loadable: Metric (TFM)  
file not
Font \C10 /fs/m/n/10=nullfont not loadable: Metric (TFM) file not  
found.


For each error message it gives a description, something like this

I wasn't able to read the size data for this font, so I will ignore  
the font specification.

[Wizards can fix TFM files using TFtoPL/PLtoTF.]
You might try inserting a different font spec; e.g., type `|/ 
fontsame font id=substitute font name'.


Does this mean that I somehow do not have Chinese fonts in the MacTex  
distribution, and that my issues are not at all related to LyX but  
MacTex?


Any help would be most welcome, as LyX is a great tool, but I really  
need to be able to use Chinese characters


Many thanks,

kgk

Re: Using LyX for writing a very long manual

[Marcelo Acuña]

 Many like to use one file per chapter. Lyx can handle a
 single 150-page document, but you may get tired of scrolling
 around in it.
 

I am not tired with a book of 726 pages. I always have outlook screen open. 
When I need go to any section, go by a click in TOC of outlook.
Regards
Marcelo

 I want to say outline instead outlook.
 Marcelo


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Re: Using LyX for writing a very long manual

[Bruce Pourciau]

On May 1, 2009, at 1:42 PM, Rich Shepard wrote:

I'm not quite sure I understand what you mean: If I don't use any  
of the
styles of a document class, why use the class in the first place?  
Or am I

missing something?


 When you select a document class it provides all the typographic  
styles
you need ... unless there's something specific and non-standard. The  
layout
of an article is different from that of a report, and both are  
different

from that of a book.

Rich


When Rich wrote


DO NOT use the facilities of your document class for your
frontmatter -- instead use custom styles and ERT (inserted LaTeX  
code) to

fine-tune your front matter exactly how you want it.


he was speaking of the front matter only -- the title page and so on.  
The main body of the work uses the standard features and styles of the  
given document class.


Bruce

Re: Using LyX for writing a very long manual

[Rich Shepard]

On Fri, 1 May 2009, Bruce Pourciau wrote:


When you select a document class it provides all the typographic styles
you need ... unless there's something specific and non-standard. The layout
of an article is different from that of a report, and both are different
from that of a book.

Rich


When Rich wrote


DO NOT use the facilities of your document class for your
frontmatter -- instead use custom styles and ERT (inserted LaTeX code) to
fine-tune your front matter exactly how you want it.


he was speaking of the front matter only -- the title page and so on. The 
main body of the work uses the standard features and styles of the given 
document class.


Bruce,

  I will accept authorship of the first quote because I wrote it. However, I
did not write the second quote. Don't know who did. When I wrote my book for
Springer-Verlag I used their svmono class for the whole thing. I did need to
start the frontmatter at page 4 so they could insert the usual short title
and other publishing stuff.

Rich

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Re: Using LyX for writing a very long manual

[Typhoon]

On Fri, 1 May 2009 16:33:37 -0700 (PDT)
Rich Shepard rshep...@appl-ecosys.com wrote:

 On Fri, 1 May 2009, Bruce Pourciau wrote:
 
  When you select a document class it provides all the typographic
  styles you need ... unless there's something specific and
  non-standard. The layout of an article is different from that of a
  report, and both are different from that of a book.
  
  Rich
 
  When Rich wrote
 
  DO NOT use the facilities of your document class for your
  frontmatter -- instead use custom styles and ERT (inserted LaTeX
  code) to fine-tune your front matter exactly how you want it.
 
  he was speaking of the front matter only -- the title page and so
  on. The main body of the work uses the standard features and styles
  of the given document class.
 
 Bruce,
 
I will accept authorship of the first quote because I wrote it.
 However, I did not write the second quote. Don't know who did. When I
 wrote my book for Springer-Verlag I used their svmono class for the
 whole thing. I did need to start the frontmatter at page 4 so they
 could insert the usual short title and other publishing stuff.

Steve Litt wrote it, but I agree with him on frontmatter, at least the
first four pages: Half title page (recto),  second page (verso, blank
or containing printing history), full title page (recto), and copyright
page (verso - containing copyright stuff, ISBN/CIP information and
usually printed in a smaller type).

Alan

 
 Rich
 
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 Innovation http://www.appl-ecosys.com Voice: 503-667-4517
 Fax: 503-667-8863
 

Typewriter, Bold is indistinguishable from plain Typewriter

[tedc]

I'm writing an instruction document and want to use Typewriter family for
stuff that appears in an xterm--bold to indicate what the user should enter
via the keyboard, and plain (medium) Typewriter for stuff printed by the
computer. These look different on screen in LyX, but the dvi previewer shows
that the bold text is being rendered as plain; pdf output confirms
this--the text marked as plain Typewriter looks identical to text marked as
Typewriter, Bold. This is on a Linux box (Centos 5.3). What can I do about
this?
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Re: bibtex bibliography insertions in lyx 1.62

[Jürgen Spitzmüller]

sensen wrote:
> I used IEEEtran template, if no bibtex bibliography, works well.
> but now i want to insert the reference using bibtex.
> after insert and citation, i checked the dvi, get error like bellow

Please post an example file.

Jürgen

Re: Fwd: Re: subdocuments

[Wolfgang Engelmann]

Am Thursday 30 April 2009 11:03:31 schrieb Guenter Milde:
> On 2009-04-30, Wolfgang Engelmann wrote:
> > Am Wednesday 29 April 2009 21:40:41 schrieb Guenter Milde:
> >> On 2009-04-29, Wolfgang Engelmann wrote:
> >
> > continuing this I found out that the error was due to a reference. But it
> > can't be the reference itself, since the same one is used at another
> > place without giving troubles.
>
> Maybe it is an error that only manifests itself at certain places in the
> document.
>
> > There were two further references in front of it; moving it to the
> > begin of the three citations in a row did not help. I put it in a note
> > for the time being until I find a solution. I remember that this
> > occurs apparently occassionaly in a koma-book-setting with two columns.
>
> It would be nice if you could construct a minimal example showing the
> problem.
>
> Günter
I will try, but I am not sure whether I can manage. It occurs apparently in 
cases where several citations follow each other and one of the citations  has 
to have some special feature where breaking in the pdf output is not 
possible. I might send you a longer part privately, if you don't mind

Wolfgang

Re: Beamer Class: allowframebreaks

[Jürgen Spitzmüller]

Rich Shepard wrote:
> Using LyX-1.6.2 and beamer-3.07, how do I now specify the frame option,
> allowframebreaks?

ERT [allowframebreaks] at the very beginning of a frame title.

>I see a menu option of "AgainFrame" but no explanation of what that
> does, where to put the command, or other information in the extended
> features docs For that matter, I saw nothing on the beamer class in the
> extended features doc.

You can use it to repeat a previous frame (or selected slides of it).
The frame to be repeated is labelled with [label=foo], again in ERT at the 
very beginning of the frame title. Then you can insert AgainFrame and just 
write "foo" after the "with Label" part. Actually, this is a very useful 
feature of the babel class, IMHO.

Jürgen

Re: Sporatic 1.6.2 Crash

[Jürgen Spitzmüller]

Rich Shepard wrote:
> Running 1.6.2 on Slackware-12.2 here. Most of the time when I press the
> [Home] key, the cursor is moved to the top of the buffer. However, three
> times now (on two different documents), pressing [Home] causes instant
> shutdown of the application without an .emergency save. PITA!

Does this happen if you have an empty paragraph or two subsequent blanks 
before pressing Home?

Jürgen

Re: Sporatic 1.6.2 Crash

[Vincent van Ravesteijn]

Jürgen Spitzmüller schreef:

Rich Shepard wrote:
  

Running 1.6.2 on Slackware-12.2 here. Most of the time when I press the
[Home] key, the cursor is moved to the top of the buffer. However, three
times now (on two different documents), pressing [Home] causes instant
shutdown of the application without an .emergency save. PITA!



Does this happen if you have an empty paragraph or two subsequent blanks 
before pressing Home?


Jürgen
  
I can reproduce this in the User's Guid with the 1.6.2 release. Go to 
the last itemized list in section 3.4.2, put the cursor at the end of an 
item. Scroll down a page or two, press Home.


D:\LyX\lyx-1.6.2\src\support\lassert.cpp(21): ASSERTION !rows().empty() 
VIOLATED IN D:\LyX\lyx-1.6.2\src\ParagraphMetrics.cpp:1602


I can neither reproduce this with trunk/branch or branch at r28772 (i.e. 
1.6.2) ?!?


Vincent

Re: Beamer Class: allowframebreaks

[Rich Shepard]

On Fri, 1 May 2009, J?rgen Spitzm?ller wrote:


ERT [allowframebreaks] at the very beginning of a frame title.


  Thank you, Juergen.


You can use it to repeat a previous frame (or selected slides of it). The
frame to be repeated is labelled with [label=foo], again in ERT at the
very beginning of the frame title. Then you can insert AgainFrame and just
write "foo" after the "with Label" part. Actually, this is a very useful
feature of the babel class, IMHO.


  Oh. OK. Makes sense when you explain it, but I cannot think of a use for
it now.

Much appreciated,

Rich

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Re: Sporatic 1.6.2 Crash

[Rich Shepard]

On Fri, 1 May 2009, J?rgen Spitzm?ller wrote:


Does this happen if you have an empty paragraph or two subsequent blanks
before pressing Home?


Juergen,

  No. Usually I'm typing in a paragraph or an item in a beamer slide and
accidently press the [Home] key instead of the backspace key next to it. Or,
I've stopped typing and want to check something at the beginning of the
buffer so I deliberately press the key.

  Most of the time it works as intended. Only a few times have I been
suddenly left looking at the root window because there's no more LyX window
to be seen. And it's not the same as accidently iconifying the LyX window;
when I middle-click on the root window there's no indication of the
application's presence.

Rich

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Re: Table in 2 (odd-even) pages

[Jürgen Spitzmüller]

Piero Faustini wrote:
> How can I have a table span across 2 pages (an odd page and the opposite
> one) just as it was one page?

http://www.tex.ac.uk/cgi-bin/texfaq2html?label=dpfloat

Jürgen

Table in 2 (odd-even) pages

[Piero Faustini]

I couldn't find a discussion on this topic.
How can I have a table span across 2 pages (an odd page and the opposite one) 
just as it was one page?
 (I don't want a Longtable. Just a table which use 2 pages as they were one).
Another similar question on tables which could partially solve question above:
 Is there a way to have a longtable left-right-wise, instead of top-bottom-
wise? I mean longtable which continue its too-wide-right-side on next page(s), 
not its bottom side.
(I know this is much a LaTeX question, but in LyX things with tables could get 
worse so LyX expert can help better)
Thanks!
Piero

Re: How to update to 1.6.2?

[Paul A. Rubin]

Piero Faustini wrote:



You have ti download LyX 1.6.2
I don't know if it will uninstall 1.6.1 automagically
Perhaps you want to uninstall it before. I think it doesn't delete yuour 
settings, but you may want to have a backup of the settings folder.




The uninstaller will ask if you want to delete the settings.  As long as 
you say no, they will carry over to the next version.


/Paul

Re: Automatic upper case for citation? (using BibLaTeX)

[Piero Faustini]

Dominik Waßenhoven  writes:

> Regarding upper case after dots in strings like 'ibid.' etc.: You have
> to use the optional argument to the cite command for this, e.g.
> \cite[cfr.][]{FaustiniBraga}, then 'ibid.' or 'id.' don't get
> capitalized. You can also achieve this from within LyX. See the
> documents (both .lyx and .bib) below:

Yep, you're right, I feel stupid I didn't think about it...
thanks

Re: Using LyX for writing a very long manual

[Thomas Løcke]

2009/4/29 Steve Litt :
> Hi Thomas,
>
> In my opinion, LyX is exactly the right tool for what you're doing. With its
> WYSIAWYG (What You See Is Almost What You Get) environment, you can pound out
> content as fast as your fingers can type, and never have to spend time
> remembering codes or have codes get in your way when proofreading. Almost all
> appearance will be done by styles, so during authoring you needn't spend time
> fine tuning the look of the book. And because LyX uses LaTeX under the hood,
> your book comes out typeset very pleasingly.


I'm currently working my way through the tutorial and the user's
guide, and already I'm impressed at how nice output looks. I can't
quite put my finger on what it is, but there's definitely something
slick about it.


> I've used LyX to write a 309 page 8.5x11, a 201 page 8.5x11, a 231 page 8.5x11
> eBook, 2 more eBooks in the 100+ page range, one that was 90 pages, and I'm
> working on one that's probably going to weigh in at about 150.
>
> You mentioned this is a programming book and you want to avoid getting painted
> into corners. You need to figure out ahead of time what styles you'll need.
> You'll definitely need a paragraph style for code (paragraph styles are
> called "environments" in LyX). Personally I make my own (mycode), which is
> really just a copystyle of lyx-code. You'll also need a character style for
> code (mycodec).
>
> Presumably you're going to need styles Tip, Warning, Caution, and Note for
> callouts. You might also need a generic callout, so if you want a box with
> heading DON'T RETURN A LOCAL POINTER FROM A FUNCTION and text explainging why
> the pointer went out of scope, you can do so.
>
> If necessary I can send you my code for these styles.


I would like that very much! I tend to learn things faster/easier when
I have some actual working "code" to look at.


> I'd suggest you read all the LyX help files, especially the customization one.
> I'd also suggest you read "Litt's LyX Library" at
> http://www.troubleshooters.com/linux/lyx/index.htm. Search the Internet for a
> doc called "TeX for the Impatient" and read it. There's also a "Not So Short
> Introduction to LaTeX" or something like that, read it. The Memoir document
> class has some must-read documentation -- read it, but I don't recommend you
> actually use the Memoir document class. A guy named Herbert Voss, who used to
> be a mainstay on the LyX list, has a website with all sorts of cool LaTeX
> riffs. Last but not least, there are a few dead-trees books on LaTeX. They're
> expensive, but helpful. By spending the first 3 days of your project reading,
> you'll understand all the corners you can get out of, and you'll probably
> discover any you can't.


All good stuff. Thank you.


> Remember when you're creating your styles that they don't have to be perfect
> the first time around -- you can change them later. Make em quick and dirty
> at first, but just be sure to use them every time. The docs on my website are
> a pretty good reference for how to make your own styles.


It appears to be quite an involved process, but I'm sure I can manage,
and if not, I can always post here and hope for some expert
assistance.  :o)


> Now I'm going to give you some very controversial advice, and many will argue
> with it. DO NOT use the facilities of your document class for your
> frontmatter -- instead use custom styles and ERT (inserted LaTeX code) to
> fine-tune your front matter exactly how you want it. There's nothing sadder
> than the guy who picks a document class to get the frontmatter just right,
> and then has to live with that document class's ideosyncracies throughout the
> book. Personally, I always start with the plain old Book document class, and
> use a layout file to add the features I need.


I'm not quite sure I understand what you mean: If I don't use any of
the styles of a document class, why use the class in the first place?
Or am I missing something?


> You've picked a great tool to write your book.

I'm sure I have. I look forward to learning how to use it.

/Thomas

Re: Using LyX for writing a very long manual

[Rich Shepard]

On Fri, 1 May 2009, Thomas L?cke wrote:


I'm currently working my way through the tutorial and the user's guide,
and already I'm impressed at how nice output looks. I can't quite put my
finger on what it is, but there's definitely something slick about it.


  Word processors work with each line as a formatting unit. TeX uses the
paragraph and the page as units for formatting. We are used to seeing
typeset output in published books and magazines so we unconsiously register
the appearance of the entire page.

  If you want to see the differences very clearly, print one page of text
using your favorite word processor, then the same text using LyX. When seen
side-by-side the differences are immediately obvious.


I'm not quite sure I understand what you mean: If I don't use any of the
styles of a document class, why use the class in the first place? Or am I
missing something?


  When you select a document class it provides all the typographic styles
you need ... unless there's something specific and non-standard. The layout
of an article is different from that of a report, and both are different
from that of a book.

Rich

--
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Applied Ecosystem Services, Inc.|Innovation
 Voice: 503-667-4517  Fax: 503-667-8863

Re: Table in 2 (odd-even) pages

[Piero Faustini]

Jürgen Spitzmüller  writes:

> 
> Piero Faustini wrote:
> > How can I have a table span across 2 pages (an odd page and the opposite
> > one) just as it was one page?
> 
> http://www.tex.ac.uk/cgi-bin/texfaq2html?label=dpfloat
> 
> Jürgen
> 
> 
thanks J.
that's useful, but not for my case:
the tables would be left aligned.
BTW, is it possible to have a common table center aligned in a way that if 
larger than text line, would span to the right AND to the left?

Trying to use some Chinese characters in Lyx 1.6.2 for Mac

[Kleanthes Koniaris]

Hello Everybody,

I just installed MacTeX and Lyx 1.6.2 on my Mac, and then I typed in  
some English, along with a few Chinese characters.  Everything  
displays very nicely in LyX.  For each group of Chinese characters I  
used the menu setting Edit/Text Style/Customized.../ and set the  
Language to Chinese.


Finally, I clicked upon the "View PDF (pdflatex)" icon, which spins  
the Mac's "beach ball" for a while (many tens of seconds), and then  
the following error message results, apparently once for each Chinese  
character:


Font C10/fs/m/n/10/18=gsfs 1418 at 10.0pt not loadable: Metric (TFM)  
file not
Font \C10 /fs/m/n/10=nullfont not loadable: Metric (TFM) file not  
found.


For each error message it gives a description, something like this

I wasn't able to read the size data for this font, so I will ignore  
the font specification.

[Wizards can fix TFM files using TFtoPL/PLtoTF.]
You might try inserting a different font spec; e.g., type `|/ 
font='.


Does this mean that I somehow do not have Chinese fonts in the MacTex  
distribution, and that my issues are not at all related to LyX but  
MacTex?


Any help would be most welcome, as LyX is a great tool, but I really  
need to be able to use Chinese characters


Many thanks,

kgk

Re: Using LyX for writing a very long manual

[Marcelo Acuña]

>> Many like to use one file per chapter. Lyx can handle a
>> single 150-page document, but you may get tired of scrolling
>> around in it.
>> 

>I am not tired with a book of 726 pages. I always have outlook screen >open. 
>When I need go to any section, go by a click in TOC of outlook.
>Regards
>Marcelo

 I want to say outline instead outlook.
 Marcelo


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Re: Using LyX for writing a very long manual

[Bruce Pourciau]

On May 1, 2009, at 1:42 PM, Rich Shepard wrote:

I'm not quite sure I understand what you mean: If I don't use any  
of the
styles of a document class, why use the class in the first place?  
Or am I

missing something?


 When you select a document class it provides all the typographic  
styles
you need ... unless there's something specific and non-standard. The  
layout
of an article is different from that of a report, and both are  
different

from that of a book.

Rich


When Rich wrote


DO NOT use the facilities of your document class for your
frontmatter -- instead use custom styles and ERT (inserted LaTeX  
code) to

fine-tune your front matter exactly how you want it.


he was speaking of the front matter only -- the title page and so on.  
The main body of the work uses the standard features and styles of the  
given document class.


Bruce

Re: Using LyX for writing a very long manual

[Rich Shepard]

On Fri, 1 May 2009, Bruce Pourciau wrote:


When you select a document class it provides all the typographic styles
you need ... unless there's something specific and non-standard. The layout
of an article is different from that of a report, and both are different
from that of a book.

Rich


When Rich wrote


DO NOT use the facilities of your document class for your
frontmatter -- instead use custom styles and ERT (inserted LaTeX code) to
fine-tune your front matter exactly how you want it.


he was speaking of the front matter only -- the title page and so on. The 
main body of the work uses the standard features and styles of the given 
document class.


Bruce,

  I will accept authorship of the first quote because I wrote it. However, I
did not write the second quote. Don't know who did. When I wrote my book for
Springer-Verlag I used their svmono class for the whole thing. I did need to
start the frontmatter at page 4 so they could insert the usual short title
and other publishing stuff.

Rich

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Re: Using LyX for writing a very long manual

[Typhoon]

On Fri, 1 May 2009 16:33:37 -0700 (PDT)
Rich Shepard  wrote:

> On Fri, 1 May 2009, Bruce Pourciau wrote:
> 
> >> When you select a document class it provides all the typographic
> >> styles you need ... unless there's something specific and
> >> non-standard. The layout of an article is different from that of a
> >> report, and both are different from that of a book.
> >> 
> >> Rich
> >
> > When Rich wrote
> >
> >> DO NOT use the facilities of your document class for your
> >> frontmatter -- instead use custom styles and ERT (inserted LaTeX
> >> code) to fine-tune your front matter exactly how you want it.
> >
> > he was speaking of the front matter only -- the title page and so
> > on. The main body of the work uses the standard features and styles
> > of the given document class.
> 
> Bruce,
> 
>I will accept authorship of the first quote because I wrote it.
> However, I did not write the second quote. Don't know who did. When I
> wrote my book for Springer-Verlag I used their svmono class for the
> whole thing. I did need to start the frontmatter at page 4 so they
> could insert the usual short title and other publishing stuff.

Steve Litt wrote it, but I agree with him on frontmatter, at least the
first four pages: Half title page (recto),  second page (verso, blank
or containing printing history), full title page (recto), and copyright
page (verso - containing copyright stuff, ISBN/CIP information and
usually printed in a smaller type).

Alan

> 
> Rich
> 
> -- 
> Richard B. Shepard, Ph.D.   |  Integrity
> Credibility Applied Ecosystem Services, Inc.|
> Innovation  Voice: 503-667-4517
> Fax: 503-667-8863
> 

Typewriter, Bold is indistinguishable from plain Typewriter

[tedc]

I'm writing an instruction document and want to use Typewriter family for
stuff that appears in an xterm--bold to indicate what the user should enter
via the keyboard, and plain ("medium") Typewriter for stuff printed by the
computer. These look different on screen in LyX, but the dvi previewer shows
that the "bold" text is being rendered as plain; pdf output confirms
this--the text marked as plain Typewriter looks identical to text marked as
Typewriter, Bold. This is on a Linux box (Centos 5.3). What can I do about
this?
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